Intensity

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Intensity is an important element of most horror stories. Without intense elements, a story is likely to be bland and unexciting. Intense situations make the reader excited to continue reading, or perhaps even anxious, scared, or otherwise emotionally affected by the story. Intensity helps keep the story interesting and emphasize any dramatic events in a horror piece.

Wife's Story

We see intensity in the Wife's Story in the beginning and end. They start off the story with the wife talking about how good of a man her husband was and emphasizing how well he treated his friends and family. The story also intensely foreshadows something going wrong with him since the very beginning, which creates a sense of excitement or anxiety. In the end, when the husband is revealed to have undergone a horrific change, the story is very intense and emotional, possibly even instilling fear in the reader. The intense wording of the story creates the desired scary atmosphere and creepy feel a reader might encounter.

Jekyll and Hyde

In Jekyll and Hyde intensity is created when the story of the door is being told involving Hyde and the little girl on the street. Because they hint at the door having multiple meanings it creates an intensity because we do not know what is going to happen next. It is also seen by the way he is telling his story and the tone he is using.In chapter two the author provides intensity when describing characters. When introducing a new character the author gives a thorough description of their look and what they appear to be before telling us a name, giving the reader time to focus on what is happening and with who they are about to meet.As the story goes on the author uses this same concept to introduce characters again. Intensity is shown thought the book when Hyde is brought up on numerous occasions with Mr. Utterson's speculations with Jekyll.

The Hanging Stranger

Intensity is present in the story The Hanging Stranger in many instances. I believe that without a feeling of intense worry or fear, this story might have been only slightly interesting at best. As the protagonist of this story is presented with conflict, the wording of the story makes it apparent that he is frightened, and it makes the reader feel frightened for him as well. The intensity of the situation in the story is well conveyed, the world is (to our protagonist, at least) being taken over and it is the most important problem to him at the time. You follow him in his intense journey to try and get away from danger and warn others of this danger.


The Phantom Coach

Intensity is evident in the first few lines of The Phantom Coach as the author warns and informs the readers that this story has only been told once and not to think lightly of it causing the reader to anticipate things that will be told later on. One of the first events they speak of is the fact the the character gets lost in a place that one dose not want to be lost at.Another moment of intensity is when the man of the house tells the lost stranger that he would like to stay if he chooses and tells him about his life and past. In the end the last form of intensity is shown when the guide is telling him about the past crashes and what happens to the four passengers.

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

The first signs of intensity are in the first few lines,"Limp, the body of Gorrister hung from the pink palette" we at this point have no idea who this person is and why he died.In the book it is said that it is their 109th year in the computer again early on in the story we do not know what is going on and start to make assumptions about what is happening or is going to happen. The fist few chapters carry on with this patter of leaving information out and picking up in the middle of the story again adds to the intensity through the book giving the readers time to assume things and form emotions about what is happening through the book.